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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

A THOUGHTFUL CRITIQUE FROM MY PARTNER

Eileen, my artist and artful spouse, offered a good critique of my re-emerging process with
drawing and painting last night – basically, let the work talk to you, don’t
force ideas on it, don’t get clever.

Same with subject, if I extend her thoughts – for example,
does a work have to have a social justice theme all the time? Yet, I scan the
internet for social-justice related photos and my photos and films from our human rights
work for images to work from, start from anyway.

I’m drawn to the Fauvist, Social Realism and Ashcan schools in art right now but I
don’t want to mimic them. Still early in this return to these art forms for me.
I need to allow for discovery and spontaneous collaboration between me and the
work and the subject and my capabilities and the medium, to keep in mind what Eileen said.Thinking about my age in all this, too, 77, soon to be 78 -- so odd.

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About Me

I'm a writer, runner, artist, social justice activist; retired as a United Methodist pastor, filmmaker and print journalist. I've got a Ph.D. in philosophy, interpretation and culture from SUNY-Binghamton. I've also been part of or guided social justice delegations to Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Chiapas and central Mexico and the Mideast. Much of this work is with Eileen, my creative spouse and partner.. With regard to running, I am a former All-American in track, my best race a 3rd place medal in the 1961 National AAU Championship 600 race at Madison Square Garden in NYC. You may follow me at wildclearing.blogspot.com, at @WesRehberg on Twitter, and on Facebook.